About July 1
July 1, 2023 is the 182nd day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 183 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Cancer is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 224 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
July 1: More About This Day
The end of this day marks the halfway point of a leap year. It also falls on the same day of the week as New Year’s Day in a leap year.
What Happened On July 1
- 1097 –Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders led by Prince Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Seljuk army led by Sultan Kilij Arslan I.
- 1770 –Lexell’s Comet passed closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 a.u.
- 1863 –Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands.
- 1870 –The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
- 1874 –The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.
- 1881 –The world’s first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
- 1935 –Grant Park Music Festival begins its tradition of free summer symphonic music concert series in Chicago‘s Grant Park, which continues as the United States’only annual free outdoor classical music concert series.
- 1942 –The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of Income Tax in Australia as the State Income Tax is abolished.
- 1942 –World War II: first Battle of El Alamein.
- 1959 –Specific values for the international yard, avoirdupois pound and derived units (e.g. inch, mile and ounce) are adopted after agreement between the U.S.A., the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries.
- 1962 –Independence of Rwanda.
- 1963 –ZIP Codes are introduced for United States mail.
- 1968 –The CIA’s Phoenix Program is officially established.
- 1972 –The first Gay Pride march in England takes place.
- 1979 –Sony introduces the Walkman.
- 1981 –The Wonderland Murders occurred in the early morning hours, allegedly masterminded by businessman and drug dealer Eddie Nash.
- 2002 –The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
- 2003 –Over 500,000 people protested against efforts to pass anti-sedition legislation in Hong Kong.
- 2004 –Saturn orbit insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC.
- 2008 –Rioting erupted in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections.
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